The Chicago White Sox are a Major League
Baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. The White Sox are a
member of the Central Division of the American League. From 1991
to the present, the White Sox have played in U.S. Cellular Field
(previously known as Comiskey Park).
They are most prominently nicknamed "the
South Siders", differentiating from the North Side dwelling
Chicago Cubs; "the Pale Hose"; and sometimes by the
national media as "the ChiSox", a combination of "Chicago"
and "Sox" (as opposed to the BoSox). Other nicknames
include "the Go-Go Sox, a reference to 1959 AL Champions,
who got that nickname; "the Good Guys", a reference
to the team's one time motto "Good guys wear black",
coined by Ken "Hawk" Harrelson; and "the Black
Sox", the name attributed to the scandal-tainted 1919 team.
Most fans refer to the team as simply "the Sox". The
Spanish language media sometimes refer to the team as Medias Blancas
for "White Stockings".
One of the American League's eight charter
franchises, the club was founded in Chicago in 1901. Then the
Chicago White Stockings, after the original White Stockings vacated
the name to become the Cubs. At this time, the team inhabited
South Side Park. In 1910, the team moved into historic Comiskey
Park, which they would inhabit for more than eight decades. It
was there that, in 1919, the infamous Black Sox Scandal occurred.
Afterwards, the team would endure 88 years of hardship, attributed
to the Curse of the Black Sox, that would end when the team won
the World Series in 2005.